Posted on 02/21/2018 8:39:14 PM PST by conservative98
Vonn took off 13th, and posted a time of 1:39.37, good enough for first place.
(Excerpt) Read more at sports.yahoo.com ...
Vonn gets zip...Shiffrin Silver.
All that hype, and zippo in the combined. I don’t think she even made it halfway down the hill. Waah waah.
Those twitter bullies must have messed with her concentration...DNF
And it was SNOWING! You can’t expect an elite skier to ski when it’s snowing...
Thus ends the endless promotion of Vonn by NBC (I think)
You are a peach.
That Shiffren is something else. She did her first downhill race just a few months ago. Awhile ago she said she wanted to expand her horizons, something like “If it involves skiing and going down a hill, I don’t see why I couldn’t be good at it.”
The amount of training she does is crazy. And her attitude. She said that EVERY turn she does, even if it is going up to the ski lift she treats as a racing turn.
One day they were supposed to do ski practice, but there was too much snow on the course. So everyone else on the US Ski Team went out to play on the slopes in the powder and have some fun.
“I suppose they got some excerzise - but it isn’t really the same muscles or style. I stayed inside and got an extra day of my training regime in.”
The article described a training day - unbelievable! Talked about how at the end of her third circuit she was crawling to get to the end. Then a two-minute break and some water, and she did it again. Two more times.
She had a pre-interview for the Olympics that was very interesting. Talked about how she was mentally fatigued after doing so many races - including doing downhill races for the first time. She didn’t finish a couple of races - missed some gates at the very end.
She said something like “That was all mental - I just couldn’t hold my concentration all through the course. I had been traveling and doing races one after the other for two months, most of them on consecutive days. I knew I needed to take a break after I didn’t finish those last two days. I took three days off and only did some light training. So I’m ready to go!”
Three days!
Lindsey Vonn fails to finish, Shiffrin takes silver in alpine combined
https://nypost.com/2018/02/22/lindsey-vonn-fails-to-finish-shiffrin-takes-silver-in-alpine-combined/
The End.
Trump Curse ??
Lindsey Vonn hooks a gate, does not finish race.
Very interesting! I had never heard of her before these Olympics. She’s performed admirably.
Oh - and she’s only 22. She has something like 5 World Cup golds and a bunch of other golds as well - plus a gold in the Olympics 4 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_dEnYiFPwM
Above is a 3 minute excerpt of a 30 minute interview just before the Olympics. Then entire 30 minutes was great. Here she is asked what it is like to be compared to Michael Phelps and other questions. Funny where she keeps all of her medals.
Yahoo sports obviously doesn’t know much. Vonn did well in the downhill part, but she’s not all that good at slalom. Didn’t have a big enough lead to overcome that and win the gold.
In tune with an old Peter Sellers movie, Laz likes to watch.....
I wouldn't mind joining him....
Even Jean Claude Killy enjoyed skiing without gates. Might be because the gates were bamboo, but he enjoyed just skiing too.
LOL...I opened that movie and skipped randomly to a point in that movie, and bam! Right on that scene with Shirley Mclaine...”I like to watch.”
Can’t look at anything in the news right now without the name Lindsey Vonn popping up.
Who does she think she is, a Kardashian?
Trump curse it is, for the GOOOOOOOLLLLLDDDDDDDuh!
FYI, Not a real fan of Megan Kelly since she left FOX for NBC. However I am glad she wasn't sent to the OLYMPICS since NBC and Katie Curric stunk.
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